Jill Price spent mot of her childhood growing up on the edge of the urban in southwestern Ontario — on that line between suburban development and rural life — with weekends spend camping and skiing with her family. And you can see it in her work. "Farming communities," she explains, "still the 'fabric of our society', are rapidly
evolving due to a global economy, suburban sprawl and the invasion of
new technologies; all of which have changed the way we acquire, look at,
work and describe them." Her most recent work, "Rurbias", reflects that relationship. "[It plays] with old and new iconography to investigate how our culture
simultaneously mimics and destroys nature through its industrious
design," she says. "Juxtaposing patterns of development against natural environments
and ecosystems ultimately works to draw attention to the rural
landscapes needed to sustain us."